Leopold Nowak

Leopold Nowak (17 August 1904 – May 27, 1991[1]) was a musicologist chiefly known for editing the works by Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society.[2] He reconstructed the original form of some of those works, most of which had been revised and edited many times.

Nowak's approach to editing Bruckner's music was much more scientific than Haas's. Whereas Haas for instance combined bits from the 1887 and 1890 versions of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor to make his edition of the work, Nowak put out two separate editions for the two versions. Nowak also wrote essays examining theoretical aspects of the music of Bruckner and others, such as an essay on the metrical and rhythmical aspects of the symphonies of Beethoven and Bruckner.